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Thread: Doc's totally got shafted on this!!! Everyone please read if your considering Heightened Senses!
Fallsguy
Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:22 pm
#40
Darkatrina wrote:
Agreed , bring the cap more in line. Needs to be least double what it is
Not double - why not 900k like combat
I capped out 900k (had 35 to start) 2h sword melee experiencein less than 3 hours on dathmore killing rancors & gaping spiders (hunters & recluse mostly)
So why can't the docs have this level as well - it would take longer than combat for us to hit that level but it would save on shuttle trips.
You'd have to buff approx 800 - 850 peeps to cap.
Message Edited by Fallsguy on 09-06-2004 09:23 PM
skywalker007l
Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:14 pm
#41
Exactly Fallsguy, even though we will take what we can get..the current caped should be multiplied by 10 or more. I am still waiting for agent to respond to one of these posts, but at least we have the CM correspondent on top of it.
MannyCalevera
Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:28 pm
#42
I just finished a whole line (persuasion) in about 15 hours of grinding. No more complaining
Cheesejaguar
Mon Sep 06, 2004 10:29 pm
#43
AltharXXX wrote:MannyCalevera wrote:Med exp is so easy.... stop complaining. I and several other medics do the pet trick for each other next to paemos, and i have a heal macro going... in 2 or so days ive gotten 3 boxes of persuasion and will get the 4th today, and ive done it while watching tv or reading,, really combat profs have it much worse, they hafta hardcore grind mobs then travel all over the place.That's why I think the devs will nerf doc's and their FS ratio. No other profession can grind out a branch in 3-4 days with so little effort. This may even be why the dev's didn't put pets as callable from the tool bar. I suspect you aren't doing this for hours on end. A powergamer should be able to do 4 boxes within 1 day. Heck I did 44x4 in CM in less than an hour with revive.
Honestly the problem is that the very low XP cap inducing people to sit there and grind out their XP in the village. Whereas with a higher XP cap they could be buffing people for XP, I do agree that overall it seems very easy, but I dont think the devs had people sitting in the village with healing macros their idea of hard work striving for their Jedi.
Quandry
Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:38 pm
#44
I dident read the whole post
But unless they stoped buffing pets for exp you could simply buff your pet store and call then rebuff.
havent ben playing the last couple months so sorry if its out of date.
skywalker007l
Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:52 pm
#45
Quandry wrote:I dident read the whole postBut unless they stoped buffing pets for exp you could simply buff your pet store and call then rebuff.havent ben playing the last couple months so sorry if its out of date.
Yes you can Quandry, but that is gridning..devs made this sytem for players to advance by playing the game. Buffs are expensive and to waste over 65 sets (for a whole branch) on a pet is silly. Not to mention, you can't call a pet and a droid, so you would need to leave the village, camp out and then go along with your buffing. Illogical to say the least
Darth_Meatloaf
Tue Sep 07, 2004 12:59 am
#46
I couldn't believe this either.....Docs really got shafted on this one.
I had one free unlock waiting for me in the village, and I, with my incredible dexterity with a mouse, picked the wrongselection and got the healing branch for free rather then Reflexes. Oops..... 
Long story short, I decided I might as well go with it, it was still one free branch, and I had been a master medic in the past.....surely Doctor XP conversion, with it's low XPcap, would have a small conversion rate as compensation, right? 
Boy, did I get screwed.
I hope the devs fix this somehow, because it truly is a horrible imbalance. As a TKM/Fencer I can grind 900k xp and 300k combat xp in a single buff session on a good day.
soulfringe
Tue Sep 07, 2004 1:14 am
#47
It's not just Heightened Senses, Look at the crafting and take a look at this thread...
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=doctor&message.id=66906
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=doctor&message.id=66906
TravonLepen
Tue Sep 07, 2004 9:14 am
#48
just so you know, it's not just docs, entertainers got shafted too from what i hear
Fallsguy
Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:04 am
#49
Quandry wrote:
I dident read the whole post
But unless they stoped buffing pets for exp you could simply buff your pet store and call then rebuff.
havent ben playing the last couple months so sorry if its out of date.
Can't pull a pet and droid out at same time (non CH) - would have to sit in med center - but same problem cap then shuttle return - cap shuttle - return -no solution here for me.
Bad_Bad_Leroy
Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:16 am
#50
pervel wrote:
Now how does this work? You cannot have both your pet and your droid out at the same time. So that means you will at least have to go back to Science Outpost (about 6 km away from the Village). You could of course bring a friend with a pet. But he would have to be a very patient and nice person because nothing is in it for him.
Isn't there a scout/ranger camp that acts like a med center; allowing you to buff? Actaully, doesn't any camp at all allow you to heal wounds/buff?
Mmaxx
Tue Sep 07, 2004 11:28 am
#51
Bad_Bad_Leroy wrote:
Isn't there a scout/ranger camp that acts like a med center; allowing you to buff? Actaully, doesn't any camp at all allow you to heal wounds/buff?
That was my thought exactly. One of the docs in the village must have novice scout. You'd be getting survival XP and be able to buff at the same time. Sure the noobie camp you get at novice is only like a 65% or something similiar but that'll do for pet buffing won't it? Since you aren't worried really about quality, make action Ds. They only need organic and inorganic. get a few docs together and do factory runs on crappy BECs, CDRMs, SDS andAction Dbuffs..... or better yet craft the SDS and buffsby hand to get the crafting XP. One BER10 on whatever chemical there is nearby, one on whatever mineral is nearby and a couple flora farms on whatever you want. Let the harvesters run overnight and start your crafting/pet buffing grind in a camp the next day. A couple days of resource gathering would most likely suffice...... or better yet, buy grinding mineral, chemical and organic before you go. You could probably sell the crappy buffs that are left over to whatever other FS hopeful in the village.
Or just spend the money and buy a couple crates of action buffs to get it over with.
For pet buffing in a camp, just run a macro that enhances action, pauses for 2 seconds, stores your pet, pauses for 14 then repeats. You can manually call your pet once it's stored.......No need to buff all stats and action D is the biggest hitting non resource specific buff. You'll probably get about 800 XP per buff so after 100 cycles you get trained. That would be time to setup a new camp anyway.... granted this methode means you are using about 15000 action buffs.....you might want to hire a tumbler or a pet tricker.
SolzDevius
Tue Sep 07, 2004 2:01 pm
#52
this is killing me. I'm traveling to the village like every fifteen minutes. Please, raise the xp cap at master doc